| From: | "Marco Ferretti" <marco(dot)ferretti(at)jrc(dot)it> |
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| To: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Comment on timezone and interval types |
| Date: | 2004-10-27 09:19:17 |
| Message-ID: | 1098868757.5606.6.camel@safepc63.jrc.it |
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On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 09:00 +0200, Thomas Hallgren wrote:
> Using OID's is a good idea, but I think a canonical list of known
> timezone to OID mappings must be maintained and shipped with the
> PostgreSQL core.
>
> If OID's are generated at initdb time, there's a great risk that the
> OID's will differ between databases using different versions of
> PostgreSQL. That in turn will have some negative implications for data
> exchange.
>
> Regards,
> Thomas Hallgren
>
I definitely agree with Thomas . The fact that OIDs are generated at
initdb time really scares me since we have different versions of the
database engine running; it would really be a nightmare if the OIDs were
different from machine to machine
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